* 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver ( d. 1987 )

* 1864 – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast ( d. 1919 )

* 1709 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, German monk and musician ( d. 1779 )

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

In this mission Ealdred was somewhat successful and obtained insight into the working of the German church during a stay of a year with Hermann II, the Archbishop of Cologne.

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe ( September 27, 1818 – November 25, 1884 ) was a German chemist.

Renard and German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz explored the wing loading ( weight to wing-area ratio ) of birds, eventually concluding that humans could not fly under their own power by attaching wings onto their arms.

The German national designers ' organization Deutscher Werkbund was formed in 1907 by Hermann Muthesius to harness the new potentials of mass production, with a mind towards preserving Germany's economic competitiveness with England.

He borrowed much from German sources, particularly from work commissioned by Hermann von Wied, Archbishop of Cologne ; and also from Osiander ( to whom he was related by marriage ).

Westermann's 1911 Die Sudanic languages | Sudansprachen. Diedrich Hermann Westermann ( June 24, 1875 – May 31, 1956 ) was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist.

* 1694 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer ( d. 1768 )

Hermann Hankel, renowned German mathematician made the following remark regarding Diophantus.

Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

One to study the mechanisms of forgetting was the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus.

* 1867 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire ( d. 1934 )

* 1895 – Hermann Brill, German politician ( d. 1959 )

Hermann Ebbinghaus ( January 24, 1850 — February 26, 1909 ) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910 ) was a German physician.

Legend of the German crown offered to Henry, Hermann Vogel ( German illustrator ) | Hermann Vogel ( 1854 – 1921 )

* Hermann Josef Hack ( born 1956 ), German artist

With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the " final solution to the Jewish question " in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring ’ s position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.

Along with his followers, the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.

* Hermann Oberth ( 1894 – 1989 ), Romanian and German physicist

Hermann Julius Oberth ( 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989 ) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer.

Oberth was born to a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu ( German: Hermannstadt, Hungarian: Nagyszeben ), Austria-Hungary ( today Romania ).

In 1912, Oberth began the study of medicine in Munich, Germany, but at the outbreak of World War I, he was drafted into the Imperial German Army, assigned to an infantry battalion, and sent to the Eastern Front against Russia.

" Oberth criticized the German system of education, saying " Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past.

) Oberth moved to Peenemünde, Germany, in 1941 to work on Nazi German rocketry projects, including the V-2 rocket weapon, and in about September 1943, he was awarded the Kriegsverdienstkreuz I Klasse mit Schwertern ( War Merit Cross 1st Class, with Swords ) for his " outstanding, courageous behavior ... during the attack " on Peenemünde by Operation Hydra, part of Operation Crossbow.

Oberth later worked on solid-propellant anti-aircraft rockets at the German WASAG military organization near Wittenberg.

In 1984 he was awarded the " Hermann Oberth Gold Medal " by the German Rocket Society " Hermann Oberth-Wernher von Braun ".

It is named after Hermann Oberth, the Austro-Hungarian-born, German physicist and a founder of modern rocketry, who apparently first described the effect.

Karl Poggensee and the Hermann Oberth society ( succeeded by the DAFRA, German work company for affairs of rocket ) operated between 1952 and 1957 a launch site for small rockets with a maximum flight level of some kilometers, close to this farm.

The Hermann Oberth society is an association named after Hermann Oberth, the German astronautics pioneer, which develops and builds rockets and trains engineers in space technology.

In 1993 the Hermann Oberth society and the Otto Lilienthal society united to form the German Society for Air and Space Technology, DGLR.

In the same year a Rocket / Technical Society was created, initially known as DAFRA, then as the German Rocket Society ( Deutsche Raketengesellschaft ) or DRG, and finally as the Hermann Oberth Society ( Hermann-Oberth-Gesellschaft ) or HOG.

It is named after the German physicist Hermann Oberth.

* 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer ( d. 1894 )

* 1812 – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist ( d. 1894 )

* 1857 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist ( d. 1894 )

The Association of German Women's Organizations ( BDF ) was established in 1894 to encompass the proliferating women's organizations that had sprung up since the 1860s.

But Russia did form a closer relationship with France in the Dual Alliance of 1894, since both were worried about the possibilities of German aggression.

* 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter and author ( d. 1894 )

* 1922 – Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot ( b. 1894 )

* 1830 – Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer ( d. 1894 )

He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto ( 1848 ) and Capital ( 1867 – 1894 ); some of his works were co-written with his friend and fellow German revolutionary socialist, Friedrich Engels.

* 1941 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain, victim of the German battleship Bismarck sinking ( b. 1894 )

* 1839 – August Kundt, German physicist ( d. 1894 )

* 1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist ( d. 1976 )

* 1894 – Artur Nebe, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII ( b. 1894 )

The two haploid and diploid terms were borrowed from German through William Henry Lang's 1908 translation of a 1894 textbook by Eduard Strasburger and colleagues.

Even the Reichstag itself, the German Parliament, occupied the former home of the family of composer Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 47 ) in Leipziger Straße before moving in 1894 to the vast new edifice near the Brandenburg Gate, erected by Paul Wallot ( 1841 – 1912 ).

Adolf Friedrich von Schack ( 1815 – 1894 ) published a German translation in 1878.

* Reichstag ( building ), the building in Berlin where German Parliaments met from 1894 to 1933 and again since 1999

It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, who was a bookseller in Mladá Boleslav, in today's Czech Republic, which was then part of Austria-Hungary, was unable to obtain spare parts to repair his German bicycle.

* 1894 – Lothar von Richthofen German pilot ( d. 1922 )

Between 1891 and 1894, the Hehe — led by Chief Mkwana — resisted German expansion, but were eventually defeated.

** Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist ( b. 1894 )

* November 4 – Dietrich von Choltitz, Nazi German military governor of Paris in World War II ( b. 1894 )

** Heinrich Hertz, German physicist ( d. 1894 )